A second reckoning : race, injustice, and the last hanging in Annapolis / Scott D. Seligman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seligman, Scott D., author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snowden, John, 1890-1919--Trials, litigation, etc.

Snowden, John.

Trials (Murder)--Maryland--Baltimore County--20th century.

Trials (Murder).

Hanging--Maryland--Baltimore County--20th century.

Hanging.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--History.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Evidence, Circumstantial.

Pardon.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Race relations.

Pardon--United States.

Evidence, Circumstantial--United States.

Maryland--Baltimore County.

Genre:

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 258 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations

Preface

Dramatis Personae

A Note on Language

Prologue

Part 1. 1917

1. "A Love Match, Pure and Simple"

2. "Aren't You Going to Come and Kiss Me?"

3. "Altogether Separate and Different Lives"

4. "All Annapolis Is Shocked"

5. "Not the Faintest Clue, Theory, or Speculation"

6. "The Woman Sherlock Holmes"

7. "The More Delicate Hand of a Woman"

8. "His Name Is Snowden"

9. "We Have Got This Negro Dead Right"

10. "A Maze of Circumstantial Evidence"

11. "I Ain't Scared"

12. "Guilty Men and Women Do Not Always Confess"

13. "Fairer for the Man, the County, the State"

Part 2. 1918

14. "Most Heinous and Diabolical"

15. "Could Not Have Come from a White Person"

16. "It Was Ten Minutes after Eleven When I Got Up"

17. "The Man Shoved a Gun against My Head"

18. "The Homes of White Women Must Be Protected"

19. "Defending Snowden Is Defending the Black People of Maryland"

20. "We Have Found No Reversible Error"

Part 3. 1919

21. "I Forgive Their False Oaths"

22. "This Is No Case for Mercy"

23. "You Can Appeal to Me until Doomsday"

24. "I Could Not Leave This World with a Lie in My Mouth"

Part 4. 2000

25. "Race Is All Over This Case"

Part 5. 2001-3

26. "There's Great Jubilation in the Community"

Afterword

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Notes

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781640124875

164012487X

Publisher Number:

40030723820

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.